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B74 - Red-eyed capercaillie.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
The eyes of the capercaillie or black grouse turned red from tears.Berezkin category: The Origins of the Characteristics of the environment
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 7, Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar
B74 has 2 other sub-motifsB74. The eyes of the capercaillie or black grouse turned red from tears. B74a. Red cloths are sewn over the character's eyes (threads, eyelids are painted red) or he does it himself. He sees everything in red or his eyes have turned red forever. B74b. The owl is forced to part with the moon and now cries out when it sees the moon. Usually, the story tells how the marriage of the owl and the moon fell apart or did not take place. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of B74's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| J27B | 99.86% | An infant is thrown into a lake or river and occasionally comes ashore. In addition to his earthly parents, he has a father (and mother) in the underwater world. He does not want to part with them, nor do they want to let him go. |
| N5 | 99.70% | Long trips, hikes, flights, or battles are described using a formula that indicates that characters learn about winter through snow or frost, and summer through warmth, rain, dew or other similar signs. |
| M91D | 99.60% | The character deceives others by passing off the dead as alive, directing suspicions of murder to innocent people, etc. When a shaman (less often a shaman) is ready to discover the truth, he succeeds in it kill and avoid being charged with murder. |
| B81 | 99.47% | The creator and his opponent consider whether to give the dog the ability to shoot (with a bow or a gun). |
| I56A | 99.24% | When a person who has entered another world touches the local inhabitants, they become ill or die. |
| B11A | 98.85% | The mammoth, represented as an underground fish-like creature, creates rugged terrain on wet ground and digs river beds. |
| K52C1 | 98.85% | Demonstrating his power, a shaman, sorcerer or other character with magical abilities causes the dwelling in which he and other people are located to begin to fill with water. Sometimes it is said that this water is an illusion. One episode: the magical specialist orders those present to catch the birds or fish that have appeared with the water, or they begin to catch them on their own initiative; when the water disappears, people see that they are holding not caught animals, but their penises or something else. |
| K89C | 98.63% | A girl parts with her brother or sister. He or she becomes the wife or husband of a bear and helps the girl. |
| I55B | 98.45% | The hero chases a deer or elk carrying the sun. |
| M186 | 98.35% | An animal (fox, wolf, leopard) runs along the shore, while a fish (burbot, goby, catfish) swims in the water. The animal calls out to the fish, which is always ahead (usually keeping other fish at a distance, but in the Negidal variant, the motif of competition is omitted). |
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This motif has been recorded in 6 traditions: Eastern Khanty (Ostyaks), Shor, Southern Altai: Altai proper (Altai-Kiji), Telengit, Altaians, Southern Selkups, Tungus (Evenki): Baikal region, Evenks, Nivkh