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N18 - Selected gifts
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator received food, drinks, money or other real world items from the characters described, but lost them against their own free will because of meeting dogs or people (robbers, boys, children or a neighbor).Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I92A | 99.94% | A person who jumps or steps over a rainbow changes their gender. |
| J32A | 99.73% | When dying, a person orders that someone spend the night at his grave or bring something to the grave. |
| I35A1 | 99.68% | The character claims the role of the thunder god and imitates him. |
| L96A | 99.67% | A person sighs, after which a character named Oh, Uh, Hey-way, etc. appears. |
| N2 | 99.59% | Fabulous and epic texts start from the beginning, which states that animals were performing human social or economic functions at that time. |
| N27 | 99.59% | Bird milk (variant: chicken, pigeon, hawkish, etc.) milk is mentioned in fairy tales, riddles, paroemias and conspiracies as something very rare and difficult to obtain or non-existent actually. |
| I95 | 99.57% | The Pleiades are a sieve or riddle for sifting agricultural products. See motif I95. |
| K67D | 99.38% | The worker (rarely – the husband) annoys the master (wife) so much that he or she decides to run away, taking his or her property with him or her. The worker hides in a sack (chest) with his or her property and ends up back where he or she started. |
| N14 | 99.19% | fairy-tale text ends with a formula stating that the narrator attended a feast and/or wedding arranged by the characters of the fairy tale. |
| M84A | 99.14% | 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. |
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This motif has been recorded in 8 traditions: Bulgarians, Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Anatolia Turks, Uyghur, Turkmen, Urums, Rumei