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H28B - Mosquitoes made from animal wool.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
Shorn hairs on animal skins or ash and smoke from burnt skins covered with wool turn into blood-sucking insects.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 8, Queer and monstrous beings, creatures, objects and loci, folk beliefs related to particular phenomena and objects
H28 has 3 other sub-motifsH28. A creature that has been killed and destroyed (often burned) (usually a cannibal, a ferocious animal, or a powerful shaman) turns into stinging insects or other harmful, unpleasant, or dangerous creatures. H28a. When a character is burned, the smoke and sparks turn into mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects that scatter throughout the world. H28b. Shorn hairs on animal skins or ash and smoke from burnt skins covered with wool turn into blood-sucking insects. H28c. The character creates blood-sucking insects to influence the behaviour of a mating partner. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of H28's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| H7G1 | 88.33% | A man (usually looking for a godfather for his newborn son) rejects God (the saints) and the devil, but praises Death: it treats everyone without prejudice (or is richer than everyone else). |
| B102 | 87.99% | Clouds are formed from smoke rising from the ground. |
| B15 | 87.16% | The river flows from the organs of a woman's body. |
| F78 | 86.60% | The character has teeth in the anus or a second head in place of the anus. |
| L43 | 85.47% | Characters dangerous to the hero (demons, robbers, merchants) mistake excrement, insects, snakes and other disgusting things (not intended for food) for something pleasant (edible). |
| E25 | 84.95% | People learn the art of weaving from a spider or from a person who later becomes a spider; the spider makes fabrics for humans. |
| F31 | 84.14% | A girl or woman becomes pregnant, without knowing it, by a reptile when she unknowingly touches a dead reptile or when a liquid that has leaked from the reptile gets inside her (usually when the contents of a snake egg accidentally flow between her legs). |
| K19C | 83.27% | A man brings home a small creature with which he makes love at night. The man's mother, sister or wife finds the creature in his bed or purse. |
| J15 | 83.22% | Having set out in search of their husband, relatives, etc., a woman, girl or children accidentally take the wrong road and encounter creatures that kill or harm them. |
| L44A | 83.16% | The demon demands that the man hiding in the shelter give him parts of his body. The man gives the demon parts of the body of a dead animal. The demon does not understand the deception and dies, giving parts of his own body in return. |
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This motif has been recorded in 4 traditions: Batak (Toba, Dairi), Chukchi, Toba (incl Pilagá), Caduveo, Mbaya