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N28G - A horse has no bile

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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.

Summary of Motif

In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a gall of horse or ass is mentioned

Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas

This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae

N28 has 7 other sub-motifs N28a.  The roots (belt) of mountains or stones are mentioned in myths, riddles, spells, and songs as something that does not really exist. N28b.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a ladder or stairway to the sky (variant: a ladder in the sky) is mentioned N28c.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a pillar of the sky is mentioned N28d.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a lid or covering for the sea, ocean or river are mentioned N28e.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a bridge across the sea, ocean or lake is mentioned N28f.  It is said that water has no boughs or twigs N28g.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, a gall of horse or ass is mentioned N28h.  In a list of things that do not exist in the world, horns of the horse are mentioned  Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N28's motifs?

Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns

Motif	Similarity	Motif Summary
M133	99.60%	Cumulative tale: a bird is injured by a thorny plant and asks for it to be punished, but everyone refuses because someone else has failed to do something; the last to be asked is the wind, which blows and causes all the characters to perform the necessary actions one after another.
K137	99.38%	The brother is killed, the sister, dressed in her brother's clothes and disguised as a young man, finds women who are able to revive the dead, puts her brother's clothes back on his body, and the women who have come revive him. Or the sister is killed, the brother lures women capable of reviving the dead, puts his clothes on his dead sister, the women think it is their husband, and revive the girl.
K137A	99.38%	The brother is killed. The sister, dressed in his clothes, finds a woman. The brother comes back to life, the sister puts on women's clothes again, and the woman believes that the girl's brother was the one who married her.
N21	98.91%	The warrior-hero was made of dough and then became alive (his name is “The Dough”)
M109A	98.38%	One zoomorphic character advises another to sit on the ice for a long time – usually until food falls from the sky. The one who sits on the ice freezes to it.
B115	97.90%	Conifers and some other trees and shrubs (small shrubs) became evergreen after the elixir of immortality was accidentally spilled on them. Cf. motif H6b.
L95A	97.79%	A person sees lungs or a liver lying on the ground or floating in the water. As soon as he touches them, a demonic character appears before him.
I20B	97.42%	People in the upper world are different from those on earth and gird themselves below or above the waist.
N28H	96.90%	In a list of things that do not exist in the world, horns of the horse are mentioned
K159	96.36%	When two characters are fighting, someone nearby wants one of them to slip (while the other remains firmly on their feet) and throws something under their feet for this purpose.

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Terrain Minimal Countries

This motif has been recorded in 9 traditions: Tats, Kara Kalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Turkmen, Kazan (Middle Volga) Tatars, Buryats: Western (cis Baikal), Central Yakuts (Sakha), Buryats: Eastern (trans Baikal), i.e. Khori

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