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N10B - Transparent neck
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Summary of Motif
A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the drinks and/or food that this girl or boy swallows. This neck is a sign of beauty.Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
N10 has 3 other sub-motifsN10. A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described. This transparency is a sign of beauty. N10a. A woman or (rarely) a man with a transparent body is described - bones are visible through the skin, bone marrow is visible through the bones. This transparency is a sign of beauty. N10b. A girl or (rarely) a young man with a transparent neck is described, through which you can see the drinks and/or food that this girl or boy swallows. This neck is a sign of beauty. N10c. A girl is described, through whose body you can see her internal organs or the food she has swallowed. This is a sign of beauty. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N10's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
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| K156 | 98.29% | A girl pretends to be a man. To determine who it really is, flowers are placed under the pillow or mattress. If a man is sleeping, they will remain fresh, but if a woman is sleeping, they will wilt by morning (or if a woman is sleeping, the milk left under the bed will sour). |
| K77B3 | 98.29% | Goats encounter a wolf. One goat has one stomach, the second has two, the third has three, and so on. The goat with the most stomachs kills or scares away the wolf. |
| L65A2 | 98.29% | A man shoots off (damages) the finger of a demonic creature, and then sees that his sister, lying in her cradle, has lost her finger. |
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This motif has been recorded in 17 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Simeulue, Nias, Lampung (Lampong); South Sumatra Malays (incl. Bengkulu), Catalan, 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, Serbs, Monte Negro, Balkarians, Uzbek, Persians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogai, Kurds, Kara Kalpak, 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), Turkmen, Central Yakuts (Sakha), Chechens