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N19 - It's still lame
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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 one or two people who met the narrator after the fabulous feast or were present directly at it at the festival, became bald/lame as a result of hot food and/or a bone or bowl thrown on the head.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 |
|---|---|---|
| G25 | 100.00% | Cereal seeds are scattered across the world, fell to the ground, now people grow bread. |
| I132B | 100.00% | A girl comes to the Sun to become his wife, but at the last moment undergoes a metamorphosis (usually turning into a bird). |
| I7B | 100.00% | Lightning – a crack in the sky through which the heavens are visible for a moment. |
| K102C | 100.00% | The enemy seizes the object that makes the hero invulnerable and kills him. The hero is revived. Changing his appearance, he provokes the enemy to put the magical object on the ground, seizes it again and kills the enemy. |
| K150 | 100.00% | A magical horse (rarely: dog) eats (hot) coals, nails, etc., or attempts are made to feed these to the horse. |
| K38E2 | 100.00% | Returning from the underworld to earth, the princess places the objects surrounding her (clothes, house, "kingdom") into a small object (egg, ball of yarn, etc.), which she takes with her. |
| K56AC | 100.00% | A girl finds herself in a forest hut, where a bear arrives. He orders her to make him a bed out of stones and logs. |
| L103B1 | 100.00% | The hero or heroine flees from a demon on the back of a domestic animal (often a bull). When the demon approaches, the animal releases a stream of manure or intestinal gas into its face, and it stops the chase. |
| M38D4 | 100.00% | Several characters that embody small objects (and a squirrel with them) travel together. The needle penetrates the body of a large animal and kills it. (In the Baltic-Finnish texts, the needle first finds items that others find useless, but after the animal was caught, everything found turned out to be in demand for cooking meat). |
| M39A5A1 | 100.00% | Realizing that a son or wife, by telling the truth, will cause trouble for the family, the mother or husband makes them believe in the invasion of chickens (geese, crows), in the rain of stones, in the rain, from which they go blind, etc. In all cases, gullible people are planted in a hole covered with skin, in a barrel, etc., and let in the skin of poultry pecking grain (in Kyurins, chickens bite grain in the yard). See M39a5a motif. |
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This motif has been recorded in 5 traditions: Hungarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Armenians, Gagauz