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N33 - Drives the enemy into the ground
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
hero drives the enemy into the ground, or he and the enemy alternately drive each other into the ground (ankle-deep, waist-deep, etc.).Berezkin category: Fabulous and epic formulas
This is of motif type Adventures and tricks and is part group 13, Formulae
N33 has 1 other sub-motifsN33. hero drives the enemy into the ground, or he and the enemy alternately drive each other into the ground (ankle-deep, waist-deep, etc.). N33A. The character's opponents trample him into the ground. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of N33's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| I87AA | 99.81% | Describes a giant bull (rarely: horse): head in one field, body in another; a bathhouse on its tail, a lake on its back; people standing at its head and tail have to walk a long way to meet each other; etc. Usually the bull is killed and eaten (by people in Baltic-Finnish traditions and in Olonets antiquity; by birds in most southern traditions). |
| K85B | 99.69% | The three-legged horse is distinguished by its strength and speed, and is ridden by a rider of non-human nature. |
| N14 | 99.68% | 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. |
| N27C | 99.54% | It is claimed that the bird has no milk and/or breasts |
| K27SS | 99.53% | A strong man must overtake a woman, often an old woman. This is difficult or impossible to achieve. |
| L108E | 99.52% | A fox has a child, usually adopted (she cares for a lamb, a foal, etc.), a wolf or a bear kills it, and the fox takes revenge. |
| L81C | 99.36% | The legless man lives together with the blind and armless man (or with one of the two). By working together, they are healed. |
| B33 | 99.36% | There is a female character who embodies the wind or is considered the mother or mistress of the winds. |
| N27 | 99.27% | 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. |
| K85C | 99.24% | A three-legged horse is strong and fast, but its four-legged brother is faster. |
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Map of Motif Dispersal
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This motif has been recorded in 27 traditions: Khmu (Kammu), Puoc, Slovakians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Greeks (modern), Balkarians, Romanians, Moldavians, Aromanians, Moldovans, Latvians, Western Ukrainians, Byelarusians, Belarusians, Russians: Central part of ethnic territory as in A.D. 1500 (Tver, Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kostroma, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Smolensk provinces; in case of absence in other areas also Russians in Vyatka, Perm, Kazan provinces), Uzbek, Sarikoli, Tajik, Abaza (Abazins), Abkhaz, Abkhazians, Ossetians, Ingush, Nogai, Georgians, Crimean Tatars, Karaims, Bashkirs, Mari (Cheremis), Chuvash, Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Inland Tlingit, Plains Cree, Chechens, Lutsi (Ludza)