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I59B3 - The Milky Way – the road of salt traders.
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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 Milky Way – the road of salt traders, "Chumak Way".Berezkin category: Supernatural objects, objects and creatures
This is of motif type Cosmology and etiology and is part group 2, Moon spots, stars, constellations
I59 has 5 other sub-motifsI59. The Milky Way is associated with agriculture and scattered objects – straw, chaff, less commonly flour, hay, peas. I59a. Astral objects or lunar spots are associated with stories about the theft of various items, the value of which is insignificant (straw, firewood, cabbage, etc.). I59b1. The Milky Way – the road to a distant city, usually with religious significance (Rome, Jerusalem, etc.). I59b2. The Milky Way – St. James' Way. I59b3. The Milky Way – the road of salt traders, "Chumak Way". I59b4. The Milky Way is associated with snow, hoarfrost, and cold. Click here if would you like to see a distrbution map combining all of I59's motifs? |
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| K35A5 | 99.60% | An authoritative character leaves an object (a letter) for a little boy, by which he will be able to recognise him when he grows up and comes to him. |
| M39I | 99.53% | After going broke, a person decides to hang himself, but finds gold (specially put by the father where his son hangs). |
| M39F | 99.48% | A fool is left headless (usually trying to get into a bear's den). When asked whether the deceased had a head, wife or someone else, they say that there was a hat (beard), but they definitely do not remember the head. |
| K152A | 99.48% | A man saves a devil (snake, predator) suffering from the proximity of a certain character or object. To reward his saviour, the devil promises to possess a princess and leave her when the man comes to treat her. The devil either breaks his promise or warns the man not to try to cure those whom the devil will later possess. The man informs the devil that the character or object he fears so much is approaching again. The devil flees and never returns. |
| K152 | 99.47% | A man saves a devil who is suffering from the proximity of a certain character or object. To reward his saviour, the devil promises to possess a princess and leave her when the man comes to treat her. The devil either breaks his promise or warns the man not to try to cure those whom the devil will possess later. The man informs the devil that the character or object he fears so much is approaching again. The devil flees and never returns. |
| B33A | 99.27% | Deciding that it has become (or will soon become) warm, the character believes that winter is over (most often an old woman goes to graze cattle), but dies from the cold or the cattle driven out to pasture perish. Cf. motif I84A ("The frozen son of God"). |
| K134 | 99.25% | A guest is planted with treasure in order to accuse him of theft. |
| L15E1 | 99.15% | An ageing character and/or one who senses his death approaching instructs his son, a warrior, or his subjects to throw his cold weapon (sword, sabre or axe) into the sea, a lake or a river. Cf. motifs L15E and L15e2. |
| L15E2 | 99.15% | One character instructs another to throw a certain object (usually a sword or sabre) into the water. The messenger claims to have carried out the task, but cannot say what happened as a result, so it becomes clear that he has lied. |
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This motif has been recorded in 7 traditions: Algeria Arabs, Bulgarians, Balkarians, 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), Kalmyk, Gagauz