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H32A - Lost abundance: the wronged wife.
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Ю.Е. Березкин, Е.Н. Дувакин. Тематическая классификация и распределение фольклорно-мифологических мотивов по ареалам. Аналитический каталог.
Summary of Motif
A young woman is the embodiment of fertility; she comes to live with people, and food becomes readily available. The woman is wronged, she leaves, and the superabundance ends.Berezkin category: Paradise Lost
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 4, Origin of death, diseases and hard life
H32 has 2 other sub-motifsH32a. A young woman is the embodiment of fertility; she comes to live with people, and food becomes readily available. The woman is wronged, she leaves, and the superabundance ends. H32b. A girl and/or boy, who are the children of a deity, come to live with humans, leading to an abundance of food/resources. Due to the hurt they have caused, the children return to their own world, and human life becomes difficult or meagre. H32C. The woman's husband has a non-human nature and possesses magical knowledge and values. He is wronged, he leaves, and his knowledge and abilities can no longer be used by humans. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of H32's motifs? |
Top 10 Motifs with similar dispersal patterns
| Motif | Similarity | Motif Summary |
|---|---|---|
| F10 | 96.71% | A woman has a second mouth (usually in her vagina) with sharp teeth. A man inserts or throws a stone, bone, stick, etc. into this mouth, knocking out the teeth or extracting toothy animals from it in this way. |
| K10E | 95.70% | In the bird's habitat, the hero finds the people it has kidnapped and helps them return home. |
| I15 | 95.58% | Creatures without mouths. Usually, their mouths are cut open later. |
| K27D | 95.57% | The test: to stay alive in a room full of predatory, poisonous and other dangerous creatures. See motif K27. |
| J13 | 95.45% | Not one woman or girl, but two sisters (or more than two, but only two play an important role in the narrative) wander and meet an unwanted deceiver instead of a desired husband or fiancé, or encounter dangerous creatures. See motif J12. |
| H20 | 95.10% | All the fish or (rarely) molluscs were concentrated in one place. A certain character allows them to escape or deliberately releases them into rivers or the sea. {In some cases, the theme of the spread of fish concentrated in a small container is difficult to separate from the theme of the spread of water. In any case, neither of these exist in Africa}. |
| M63 | 94.99% | Before reaching the part of the body that is most suitable for certain purposes, others are named or tried. (Cf. Motive F22: The enumeration is related to finding the partner's genitals). |
| L98 | 94.88% | The demon that carries off children and threatens heroes, people, etc., is the eagle owl; there is a race of owls that is hostile to humans. |
| F28D | 93.82% | By masturbating with an artificial penis, a woman conceives children. |
| M84B | 93.51% | An animal, bird or fish that is killed and eaten comes to life after its bones are thrown into the water. See M84 motif. |
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This motif has been recorded in 19 traditions: Congo (Koongo, Bacongo; incl Vili, Fioti, (Ma)Yombe, MuKunyi), Ndombo, Luango (Loango), Zombo (Sambo), Laadi (Laari), (Ba)Fioti, Woyo (Kiwoyo), Ronga, Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba, Ontong Java, Nukumanu, Takuu, Nukuria, Maria, Muria, and other South-Central Dravidians: Binjhwar, Bacop, Bhattra, Bom, Jhoria (=Jhodia), Gadaba (in Koraput, neighbors of Munda-speaking Gadaba), Duruwa (Parji), Mehtar; Pardhan, Tagish, Tahltan, Tsetsaut, Tanana, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Heiltsuk (Bellabella), Oowekeeno, Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga), Kawaiisu, Huichol, Cora, Tepecano, Tzotzil, Guajiro, Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)