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M94 - Mountain riding
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Summary of Motif
One character invites the other to roll down the mountain to destroy him. Cf. Motive L42C.Berezkin category: Adventures: Tricks and episodes
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 10, Adventures
M94 has 4 other sub-motifsM94. One character invites the other to roll down the mountain to destroy him. Cf. Motive L42C. M94a. The demonic character kills his victims, provoking them to slide down the mountain. M94a1. By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suffers damage (attacks the edge, falls into the water, etc.). M94b. The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. M94b1. The character is lured to look under the mill wheel, he dies or is maimed. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of M94's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| L17A2 | 97.73% | Instead of a beautiful woman, a man takes a devil with an odd number of eyes. |
| B64B | 95.75% | Two types of fish shoot arrows at each other. Since then, the fish have had many small bones in their bodies, or some of their bones have split in two. |
| I84 | 93.95% | The Milky Way – ski tracks. |
| I50B | 93.54% | Describes or depicts a predatory animal with six or more legs. |
| B42F | 92.12% | The Big Dipper (as a whole or only the dipper) is identified with a large hoofed animal (elk, deer, mountain sheep). Unless otherwise specified, see motif B42 in the description of cosmic hunting. |
| M94A1 | 90.97% | By stupidity or negligence, a zoomorphic character rolls down a mountain and as a result dies or suffers damage (attacks the edge, falls into the water, etc.). |
| L102A | 90.01% | A seagull kidnaps a girl or woman, but she manages to return to people. |
| B64D | 89.30% | Certain bones in the bodies of living creatures (usually birds and fish) are arrows shot into them. |
| B38C | 88.48% | The raven and the loon paint each other. |
| F81 | 87.09% | The character does not recognise his reflection in the water, thinks that a person (usually a woman, with whom he immediately falls in love) is looking at him, and jumps into the water. (Cf. J1793, "Diving for a woman's reflection"; among the Kwinolts, diving for a real reflection of a woman; among the Menominee, diving for a woman in the water). |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Mansi, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Dolgans, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Evens (Lamuts), Udeghe, Nanai, Negidal, Nivkh, Kerek, Forest (Upper Kolyma) Yukaghir, Chukchi, Upper Tanana (Nebesna), Tanacross, Tutchone, Tagish, Gwich'in (Kuchin, Loucheux), North Alaskan Inupiat, Sechelt (incl Sisiatl), Squamish, Halcomelem, Caraja